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Hilton Village Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Papers, 1918-1960, concerned with the development of Hilton Village in Warwick County, Va. (now part of Newport News, Va.),
the first federally sponsored housing project in the United States which opened in 1918.
"Government Industrial Housing a Business Proposition."
August 7 1918
Scope and Contents
American Architect August 7, 1918. Vol. CXIV, No. 2224, pp. 157-166, Plates 42-52 Article of Hilton Village.
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 4 id145107
Palen, F.P. "Housing Our Shipbuilder."
November 1918
Scope and Contents
The Shipbuilder. (November 1918): 2-3. Photostatic Negatives.
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 5 id145108
"Henry Vincent Hubbard: An Official Minute on His Professional Life and Work."
January 1948
Scope and Contents
Landscape Architecture. (January 1948) Vol. XXXVIII. No. 2: 46-60. Article as a tribute to Henry Vincent Hubbard, city planner
of Hilton Village.
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 6 id145109
Anderson, Dick. "A History of Warwick [County, Va.]"
1953
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 7 id145335
Warwick the City and its Government. Warwick, Va.: City of Warwick
1956
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 8 id145336
Chambers, Ruth Hanners. "Hilton Village - Another FIRST for Virginia."
August 1960
Scope and Contents
Seminar paper presented to College of William and Mary in Virginia on Hilton Village [Va.]
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 9 id145337
Chambers, Ruth H. "Hilton Village: The Government's first planned community was built to serve in an emergency." Virginia Cavalcade
Spring 1967
Scope and Contents
Volume XVI, No.: 41-47
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 10 id145338
Articles by Ruth Hanners Chambers which appeared in the Daily Press [Newport News-Hampton, Va.] Dominion Magazine 's four-part series on Hilton Village, [Va.]
May 21- June 11 1967
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 11 id145339
Articles on Hilton Village [Va.] historical marker
September 5-6 1967
Scope and Contents
"Historical Marker placed in Village." Times-Herald [Newport News, Va.] 5 September 1967 "Village's Distinction Chronicled
on Marker." Daily Press [Newport News-Hampton, Va.]. 6 September 1967
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 12 id145340
Articles concerning the expansion of Warwick Boulevard and the controversy over its effects on the preservation of Hilton
Village [Va.]
October 16, December 8 1967
Scope and Contents
Wilson, Madge. "Operation Survival...Expressway Plans Threaten Life of Hilton Village." Times-Herald [Newport News, Va.].
16 October 1967. Wilson, Madge. "On Second Thought..." Times-Herald [Newport Nes, Va.]. 8 December 1967. 21-22.
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 13 id145341
Hilton Village After Fifty Years . Newport News, Va.: Department of City Planning
1968
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 14 id145342
Articles on fiftieth anniversary celebration of Hilton Village [Va.]
July 5,6 1968
Scope and Contents
"Hilton Celebrates Despite the Rain." Daily Press [Newport News, Va.] July 5 1968 "Hilton Opening Called 'New Era'." Daily
Press [Newport News, Va.]. July 6 1968.
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 15 id145343
Article concerning the preservation of Hilton Village.
October 10 1968
Scope and Contents
Greiff, John B. "Hilton Village Preservation Taking Shape In New Plan." Daily Press [Newport News, Va.]
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 16 id145344
"Save Historic Hilton Village" bumper sticker
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 17 id145345
Photographic print, 13 1/2"x11", black and white, Colony Inn on Main Street in Hilton Village, Newport News, Va.